[Dailydrool] Mazzie's vet appt update

[LaRock Hounds]

This is a hard email for me to compose. Mazzie and I went to the vet
appointment today. She has been urinating in the house at night a month
(again). We finally isolated that it was her. She would get off the dog
couch and urinate on the floor. Then, she would urinate on her bed she was
sleeping in. Last night we diapered her and she did not urinate. We
discussed this with the vet who stated that it was behavioral. We spoke of
cushions, diabetes, thyroid, and addisons today. She has a healthy coat, no
pot belly appearance, not drinking excessively, not urinating repeatedly
during the day and not asking to go out alot. She tried to bite my 11 year
old son last week and she snapped at my cousin's 20 month old last month
when he accidentally stepped on her. THe vet looked in the records and he
had that Mazzie tried to bite me twice in 2007. I have vague memories of
that. Here's the kicker--she tried to bite the vet 3 times today during the
exam. She is not like that. He determined that she possibly is starting to
get how she was in January with the sensitivity in her bladder so he gave
her amoxicillan and a shot of prednisone. He also gave her pills of
amoxicillan and prednisone.  He then said, At the Animal Hospital, I will
euthanize a pet for something that cannot be cured or for an animal that
bites humans or other animals only. At what point are we at? I told him she
has snapped at the other dogs, but has not made contact with any person or
dog. He told me to never trust her again with a child. That just breaks my
heart. I have so many cousins which have newborns and up until age 8 kids
and dozens of them that get together where our dogs are always present.  We
talked more and decided that we needed to try to help Mazzie more in putting
her on prozac (generic) to be filled at the pharmacy. That I need to do
today, but as I sit her typing, I feel like I am out of my body. I can't
have a dog that bites little kids. I pray she never gets to that point. I
don't want to have to make a decision. Today is a horrible day. The vet said
it could be why she was given to the humane society and that the owners just
never told the truth. What am I going to do? (Mazzie had the full work up on
her bladder in January and had things set out to Cornell--negative for
cancer)

-- 
DRool to all in need,
Dee,
Maggie, Mazzie, Oliver, Cooper,& Harvey
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